Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[spottybrowncow]

Thank you, Higgy.

I follow the archdruid sporadically, but I always respect his opinions.
This was really interesting, although I'm not sure I (or he) got any solid answers.

I still contend that the Socratic ideal is the ultimate guide for living one's life (earthly life, Jesus Christ notwithstanding). While opinions may vary on the interpretation of this, my take is "Never let anyone convince you that something is true, unless it is apparent to you upon examination of the available evidence that it is so." That has never failed me.

[Higgenbotham]

Thank you, Higgy.

I follow the archdruid sporadically, but I always respect his opinions.
This was really interesting, although I'm not sure I (or he) got any solid answers.

I still contend that the Socratic ideal is the ultimate guide for living one's life (earthly life, Jesus Christ notwithstanding). While opinions may vary on the interpretation of this, my take is "Never let anyone convince you that something is true, unless it is apparent to you upon examination of the available evidence that it is so." That has never failed me.

I heard a story recently about Trump Derangement Syndrome which I will repeat as it was written to me. My sister has some conservative neighbors who have (had?) one liberal son (only child) who worked for NASA. They had some kind of falling out, not sure what it was about, and the son and his first wife would not allow the parents to see their 3 grandkids for 14 years. The son got divorced and remarried, also got a different high paying job with a private company. His new wife is a very high paid nurse who has 3 kids of her own, all autistic. I'm just telling this as it was sent to me in texts. At this point the parents and the son reconnected. They went to visit the son and his new wife over Memorial Day. They brought gifts for the kids and the conservative mother commented to her son that Trump's parents' names are Mary and Joseph. The son then shouted you mean the Antichrist. The mother took a breath and quietly said, well, we don't really think of him like that (I'm just repeating this exactly as it was sent to me). Then the son, in front of all 6 kids, screams twice, this is my FUCKING house. The conservative father then said we should go. The son repeated once again this is my fucking house. The conservative mother started to cry. The new nurse wife then went over to her husband (the son) and was rubbing his face. She said don't touch my husband. The conservative father then got on speaker with his wife to my sister's neighbor to tell her that they were coming home early (the neighbor was taking care of the cats).